Supernatural Birth Machine

Supernatural Birth Machine
Supernatural Birth Machine
Studio album by Cathedral
Released	12 November 1996
Recorded	May–June 1996
Studio	Parkgate Studio
Genre	Stoner metal, doom metal
Length	57:57
Label	Earache
Producer	Kit Woolven
Cathedral chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Chronicles of Chaos	7/10^[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10^[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]

Supernatural Birth Machine is the fourth studio album by British doom metal band Cathedral, released on 12 November 1996 through Earache Records.^[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lee Dorrian and Garry Jennings, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cybertron 71/Eternal Countdown (Intro)"	1:18
2.	"Urko's Conquest"	4:02
3.	"Stained Glass Horizon"	5:29
4.	"Cyclops Revolution"	7:07
5.	"Birth Machine 2000" (Written by Dorrian, Jennings and Leo Smee)	8:59
6.	"Nightmare Castle"	6:31
7.	"Fireball Demon"	4:12
8.	"Phaser Quest" (Written by Dorrian, Jennings and Smee)	3:42
9.	"Suicide Asteroid"	4:13
10.	"Dragon Rider 13"	5:52
11.	"Magnetic Hole"	6:32

Japanese version bonus track
No.	Title	Length
12.	"Tuckers Ruck"	4:59

Personnel

Cathedral

Lee Dorrian – vocals
Garry Jennings – guitar, mellotron (tracks 1 and 5), piano (track 6)
Leo Smee – bass
Brian Dixon – drums

Technical personnel

Kit Woolven – production, engineering
Doug Cook – assistant engineering
Noel Summerville – mastering
Antz White – art direction, design, digital image manipulation
Dave Patchett – cover painting
George Chin – band photographs

References

^ ^a ^b "Cathedral 'Supernatural Birth Machine'". earache.com. Earache. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
^ Raggett, Ned. Cathedral: Supernatural Birth Machine at AllMusic. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
^ Bromley, Adrian (2 January 1997). "CoC : Cathedral - Supernatural Birth Machine : Review". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1998). "Cathedral". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE Inc. pp. 990–991. ISBN 0-333-74134-X – via Internet Archive.

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[earacherel-1] "Cathedral 'Supernatural Birth Machine'". earache.com. Earache. Retrieved 4 November 2016.

[allmusicrev-2] Raggett, Ned. Cathedral: Supernatural Birth Machine at AllMusic. Retrieved 4 November 2016.

[3] Bromley, Adrian (2 January 1997). "CoC : Cathedral - Supernatural Birth Machine : Review". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

[4] Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.

[5] Larkin, Colin, ed. (1998). "Cathedral". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE Inc. pp. 990–991. ISBN 0-333-74134-X – via Internet Archive.

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